Word: bowlful
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...aside from challenging strong competition. Last weekend’s event brought on punishing weather, and this weekend brought more trouble, as the Alpine and nordic teams were forceably split from each other. The Alpine team remained in the championship’s usual location at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the nordic team traveled to Craftsbury, Vt., to compete at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. “It definitely detracted from the happenings that usually occur at the Middlebury Carnival,” senior Susannah Dickerson said. Neither team appeared to be bothered by the diversion. For the nordic...
...Cotton Club”: Francis Ford Coppola’s abysmal depiction of the infamous Harlem night club was a huge pitfall for Gere. Cheap lines like, “You’ve got about as much style as a bowl of turnips,” solidified his doom. Unfortunately, that quip was also an insult to turnips everywhere...
...only one affected by her travels. Liz K. Panarelli ’07 came back to Harvard in January after teaching in Tanzania, living for four months on variations of beans and corn. As she sits in the Eliot Dining Hall, deliberately eating first a bowl of lentil soup, then a small plate of succotash, one might wonder if she has grown accustomed to this type of food. The difficulty of returning to Harvard surprises students, who expect—and are expected—to fit right back into the undergraduate lifestyle. Harvard is known for its rapid pace...
...game that luresmillions of sporting souls into the office pools, to figure out the preferences of the 6,500 Motion Picture Academy members. Yet of all the pop-cultural horse races, from the Super Bowl to American Idol, the Oscars are the one we know the least about. Only the winner is announced, not the runner-up or the margin of victory. It's as if all you knew about the 2000 election was, "And the Presidency goes to ... George W. Bush...
...member Palestinian parliament, part of a landslide victory for the militant Islamic group. Now religious conservatives like al-Bitawi find themselves in a position to promote social strictures that were only fitfully observed under the rule of the secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays...